Vehicle wheel



A. BALAGUER.

VEHICLE WHEEL,

APPLICATION HLED MAY e, 1919.

Patented Aug. 29, 1922.

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I A ORNEY A. BALAGUER.

VEHICLE WHEEL.

APPucAnoN- man MAYG. 1919.

Patented Aug. 29, 1922.

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INVENToR.

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A oRNEY.

ANDRES BALAGUER, OF M.iltil.laOl.v CUBA.

VEHICLE WHEEL.

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. Apniieauon filed May e, isis. `serial no, 295,232.

TooZZ whom t may concern:

Be it-known that l, ANDRES Pif" .fieu'nn, a citizen of the Republic of Cuba', and resident at Marianao, Province of Habana, RepubliA of Cuba, have invented certain new and usetul improvements in Vehicle Wheels Provided with Pneumatic Tires, oi which the following is a specification.

vThis invention relatesto automobile or other vehicle wheels yprovided with pneumatic tires. in object of this invention is to provide a construction of tire carrying rim, which is transportable together with the tire previously arranged thereon,'and in which the tire with 4the inner tube can be easily mounted or removed.

'inothei' object of this invention is to pro vide a special construction koit wheel on which can be easily mounted'orremoved a demountable rim carrying a pneumatic tire and its inner tube, and which is provided with locking and protecting means for thek demountable rim.

And stilll a further object of this invention is to provide a special construction of pneumatic tire provided with special ie-enforcing and protecting means for the inner air tube, so as to prevent its puiicturing, or at least to make it quite diiiicult. n

In the annexed drawings :k

F ig. l is a cross-section of peripheral pjortion of a pneumatic tire cari-yin@` wheel provided with the improvements rorming the subject-mattei' ol this invention. y

And Fig. 2 is a similar section of similar portion ot wheel showing a slight modilication. y y

kThis invention consists in providing a double rim for a wheel formed by a ielloe 1 connected to spokes 3, that is a rim comprising two metallic rings superposed one on the other, namely, an inner ring 4 properly affixed to the wheel and which is provided with a flange 5 bent down at right angles to its inner edge and a similar flange 6 at its outer edge, and besides at the inner edge the rim is provided with an outwardly directed flange l or' curved section forming an inwardly concave channel and terminating in a second iiange 8 of plane sliape or slightly curved in divergent upward direction, and another upper ring 9 provided at its outer edge with a iiange 10 inwardly bent in right angle and a flange 11 upwardly directed and of curved section `forming an inwardly concave channel and terminating in .a second tiange 1.2 oi plane shape or slightly curved vin divergent upward direction, and the inner edge of `the upper ring 9 is oi wedge shape 9 for fitting with the initial portion of i'iange oii'lov-.ier ring 4f. Both rings and 9 aresecured together by means .of a plurality of bolts 13 provided with heads lil/,and which pass through holes in o lower flanges ande jot the lower v,and in the lower tlange, 10 oit upper ring 'they being secured in position by means nuts ill'on the threaded ends of said bolts ..0 so aste tighten thev lower flange` 10 o' upper ringf) against the rlower'ilaiige oi' 4the lower ring l o, n

vThe pneumatic tire -is formed, of an ordi- ,nary body 15 made; otvoverlying fabrics and .lower halt of the total height of the tire in transversek section, owing to the superposed arrangement ofthe two solid bodies 15 and 17, and this tire vis arranged with the air .tube 22 within the same, on demountable rim which is formed by two superposedmef tallic rings, namely an upper ring 23 having its outer edge slightly curved upwards and .et wedge shape 23 and provided at its inner edge with an inward concavity outwardly directed channelled iange 24C arranged for littin'g with a bead 15 of the pneumatic tire,

and a lower ring 25 of wedged shape inner edge 25 and outer edge provided with inward concavity outwardly directed channelled 'flange 26 4arranged for kfitting with the other bead 15 ot the pneumatic tire,v one ring litting on the other one and both being secured together? by means of two series of counter sunlr screws 2'? and 28 screwed on registering threaded holes formed in said rings 23 and This transportable rim 23', 25 carrying the pneumatic tire 15 with the air tube 22, so tliatthe air feeding tube 29 may mounted through registering holes oi? rings 28 and 25, is mountedon ring 9 ed on the stationary rim of the Wheel until the channelled Hangers 24 and Q6 may respectively tit in the Qhannelled ange's T and il of rings and 9^ and then the screws 13 and nuts 11i are placed. Thus, the substantially plane flanges 8 and l2 serve ttor pro-4 tecting' und securing the lower portions of the sides of the tire, thus preventing `the action or cutting strains on the inward portions 1'5" ot tire l5. The rings 5 and 9'are also provided with registeringw holes for receiving therethrmig'h the tube 29 'feeding air into tube 22.

ln Fig. f2 is illustrated a modified 'torni of wheel having two series of wires and 3l. :Instead ot' the felloe i, and spokes 2, the lower inner i'iange 5 or ring l forming the stationary ring` of the wheel not being ornitted, and the ends of the wires 30 and 31 'being rigidly fixed to theedges of ring 4.

:ln the described tire construction7 the body of caoutchouc 17 'terms a shell `tor the air tube 22 which is most elicient because any tack or nail that may have punctured through the two re-en'forcements of fabric 1.8 and 20 and through the ordinary body i5 will be stopped by the solid caoutchouc impeiiii-firahla oi body 1'? eoveringthe outer l alt of tube 22, while the inner halt thereo'" is protected by the vllanges 8 and l2 @ii-rings il and 9 oi the Wheel rim.

lt is obvious that the details ot construetion can be slightly varied Without altering the spirit oi" the .invention which is as pointed out inftheappended claim.

lllhat claim is:

A tire comprising a pneumatic cushion, 5, Lrs oi rein'logoingl and cushioning material extending' therearound, a solid annular cushion ot 'freseent shapedy cross-section on the outer periphery or' said layers, reintorcing and eushioninf layers extending Aaround said pneumatic cushion5 said first named layers and said solid cushion, beads, reiniorcinlgg and cushioningw layers extending around said beads and also around the seeond named layers, and u solid annular tread cushion ot crescent shaped Cross-section on i the periphery ot' the voutermost of the third f. rained layers. i

` lii testimony whereof, l afiix my signature hereunto.

ANDRES' BALAGUER. 

